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by nbadg 4y ago
I went to school for mechanical engineering (though I now work in software). We were required to take signals and systems, but if I remember right it was a weed-out course for most MechEs (it certainly was a challenge for me, though I think
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by nbadg 4y ago
That's only half of the story. The second half of the story is "if the getting worse temporarily cancels out the getting better, stop trying to correct, or you're going to crash!"
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by nbadg 5y ago
The nuances around spot pricing are testing the limits of my knowledge here, but my understanding (which might be wrong!) is that, in the context of gas storage infrastructure, spot prices have an indirect influence on the fill level, purel
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by nbadg 5y ago
To expand on this: much of the distribution infrastructure within Germany is owned by Gazprom. For example, there's a very large natural gas storage capacity within Germany, but a significant portion of that is owned by, you guessed it
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by nbadg 5y ago
I will be interested to see how this interacts with the Ampel Koalition's desire to add more restrictions on state-sponsored hacking (search term, "Staatstrojaner" [1]). The current government coalition contract includes &quo
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by nbadg 5y ago
I'm a friend of the author, as well as friends with (former) employees at some of his clients. I can vouch not just that he's a lawyer, but also that he has experience in the space. _A lot_ of experience in the space.
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by nbadg 5y ago
Kyle's a fried of mine, so I may be a bit biased. But I'm very sympathetic to this kind of license, and fairness is really hard to define, especially in advance. He's actually written separately [1] about exactly how difficul
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by nbadg 5y ago
I've run into this a couple of times. Typically it's when starting a new project and gradually adding dependencies. By default, when adding (poetry add <dep>), poetry adds the most recent version of the library, and in pypro
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by nbadg 5y ago
Technically that would be a different thermodynamic cycle. For a true jet engine, you need compression, heating, and then expansion. Using the heat of compression doesn't count; it's thermodynamically equivalent to a propeller (ju
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by nbadg 5y ago
> 70 W/m^2 For reference, according to wikipedia [1] the US federal limit on microwave oven emissions (outside of the enclosure, ie, what you would experience if you smushed your face against the glass while watching your oatmeal co
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by nbadg 5y ago
Another lens: if I remember right, almond crops are actually one of the most lucrative crops in California per unit of water . So if you looked at it from the perspective of "what crop could I grow to make the most money with the leas
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by nbadg 5y ago
Out of curiosity, when? I walked down Bernauer Straße with my dog (from the Hundeplatz at Mauerpark to Nordbahnhof; I live relatively close-by) and didn't see anything unusual. I don't keep track of time well on a Friday at the do
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by nbadg 5y ago
And if you're multilingual within "monolingual" countries, especially the US, good luck. (microrant: there's no such thing as a monolingual country, and the US has no official language!) I've gotten emails from mult
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by nbadg 5y ago
The writing is on the wall, period, it's just a matter of time. As renewable usage increases, industrial and power grid use of natural gas is going to decrease. Period. That's the whole point. The reason natural gas is so cheap is
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by nbadg 5y ago
Generally speaking that's considered unpythonic though. Default values are evaluated exactly once, at function definition time. So if you do this, then your default B() will always be the exact same instance of the B class -- literally
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by nbadg 6y ago
If you want the creaminess with similarly low effort, then instead of just dumping the pasta water and stirring the "roux" ingredients directly into the pasta, use a slotted spoon to take the pasta out of the water instead of the
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by nbadg 6y ago
> extremely, exceedingly rare One caveat to this: I'm considering workplace sexual assault and harassment as out of scope in my comment. That is itself a really important topic, but I don't think it was in the spirit of OP&#x27
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by nbadg 6y ago
That depends if you mean PTSD in a clinical sense, or PTSD in the pop-culture-phrase sense. And also, you're asking a yes/no question, but it's probably better to ask "how likely is it". There are a lot of humans in
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by nbadg 6y ago
Oh to be clear, I think it's perfectly plausible (and even likely). You can boil the question down to "does smelling a female in heat lower impulse control in intact males", and, well, yeah, I can believe that without batting
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by nbadg 6y ago
I want to preface this by saying: veterinary science is just that, a science. Your vet has spent their career, hopefully anyways, learning what the best veterinary minds know about veterinary medicine. And your vet is probably a whole lot m
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by nbadg 6y ago
I would argue that, if you need to have long-form text to explain your content (even if it's only a short sentence or two), then a live presentation is the wrong format for delivering that information. Live presentations simply aren&#x
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by nbadg 6y ago
An alternate solution to the same problem would be to streamline running your own local certificate authority. For example: if the local router was its own certificate authority (that spoke ACME), and OSes and/or browsers were configur
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by nbadg 6y ago
Huh. It's certainly an interesting idea! Strictly speaking, individual people could implement this today, since nonstandard HTTP verbs don't break anything that doesn't know to request with them. (It wouldn't be of much
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by nbadg 6y ago
> Async is... a tangled mess. I'm pretty sure its just the modern "unstructured goto" style of spaghetti that has been rediscovered. Yeah, its super-efficient, but no, its not really easy to program. That's not inhere
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by nbadg 6y ago
I'm not sure I would say it has nothing to do with reality; that's up to SpaceX to decide. The premise suggested in the post, extremely briefly, is that, because Starlink would be a global ISP (which, to my knowledge, basicall
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by nbadg 6y ago
For my personal application, I needed access to the actual data, and wanted my map render to be in-sync with the data layer. For that, there aren't any companies (that I'm aware of) offering services; that would also be really tou
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by nbadg 6y ago
Speaking from experience, trying to deploy a production-grade OSM instance is an enormous amount of work. Several businesses have been built purely around that (Maptiler and Mapbox, to name two off the top of my head). I agree that, particu
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by nbadg 6y ago
I personally had no idea this existed, even though I would (and now will) use it avidly. So that's probably an indication that the UX needs to change to improve discoverability!
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by nbadg 6y ago
I think it's important to put this into context. They're stating that a malicious user could crawl public info of other users, thereby building (over time) a behavioral model of those users. The theory that you could protect users
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by nbadg 6y ago
> The webapp runs on two identical DigitalOcean servers... The database is a hosted Postgres instance also on DigitalOcean. They're only spending $69/mo total at DigitalOcean, and it sounds like their scaling isn't limited

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